CLA160H1 Lecture Notes - Turnus, Aeneid, Catullus
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Lecture #11 page 1: book nine, the ships of the trojans. Iris comes (the messenger of the gods) and tells turnus that it is a good time to attack the trojans because aeneas is not there. But jupiter promised that when the ship was destroyed, the pines of the the pines the ship was made with are sacred to the goddess cybele. Jupiter could not promise cybele that the ship would be divine because. Turnus goes toward the ships that are sacred to cybele. Background to the ships it was built by mortals ship would become sea goddesses (nymphs) Turnus and his men fire at the ships in setting fire to the ships (hector wasn"t able to) The ships sinks and then turn quickly into sea goddesses, just like jupiter. Similar to what hector tried to do that achaean ships in the iliad. Turnus, however, has somewhat achieved victory because he succeeds promises.
